Affiliations: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Areas of specialization: microsurgical breast reconstruction, lymphedema surgery, head and neck reconstruction

Dr. Allen is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon with extensive clinical experience in all facets of breast reconstruction, with a special interest in microsurgical breast reconstruction. He also has significant experience and interest in oncologic head and neck reconstruction. He specializes in the microsurgical transfer of skin and fat (without muscle) for autologous breast reconstruction using the ideal donor site for each patient. These procedures include the deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap, superficial inferior epigastric artery (SIEA) flap, profunda artery perforator (PAP) flap, lateral thigh perforator (LTP) flap, lumbar artery perforator (LAP) flap, gluteal artery perforator (GAP) flap, and thoracodorsal artery perforator (TDAP) flap, among others.